WACO, Texas – Colorado State University Pueblo senior receiver Reggie Retzlaff (Corona, Calif./Riverside City College) has added another postseason honor to his collection this season as the 2024 Harlon Hill Trophy finalist was named to the 2024 AFCA NCAA Division II All-America First Team as announced Wednesday by the American Football Coaches Association.

Retzlaff, who becomes the first Pack football player to earn AFCA First-Team All-America honors since defensive lineman Trey Botts was honored in 2022, earns his AFCA First-Team All-America accolade after being named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year and the D2CCA Super Region Four Offensive Player of the Year.

On the season, Retzlaff led the RMAC in receiving touchdowns (12), receiving yards per game (116.9) and receiving yards (1,228) and was second in the RMAC in both receptions per game (6.1) and all-purpose yards per game (112.5). On the season, he caught a single-season school record 67 passes for a single-season school record 1,228 yards and tied the single-season school record for touchdown receptions with 12.

The 6-foot-3, 212-pound receiver ranks in the Top 10 in Division II in touchdown receptions, receiving yards and receiving yards per game and his 24 career touchdown receptions are tied for tops on the school's all-time charts and ninth among active Division II players. During the 2024 regular season, Retzlaff was a two-time RMAC Offensive Player of the Week and the NFF Colorado Chapter Player of the Week on Sept. 10 and caught at least seven passes in six games, tallied 100 or more receiving yards in a game six times, including a single-game school record 241 yards in the Pack's 35-6 season opening win at South Dakota Mines. He also hauled in two or more touchdown catches in a game four times.

Retzlaff leads all Colorado football receivers (all levels) in receiving yards and is second in pass receiving yards. Retzlaff is one of two players in school history to record 1,000 or more receiving yards in a season. Recorded a team-high 20 plays of 20 or more yards on the season, including a 76-yard touchdown reception at Western Colorado, which was the longest offensive play of the season. Eight of his 12 touchdown receptions went for 20 or more yards and sits third among active Division II players in career yards per catch (17.7).

The AFCA Division II All-America Selection Committee is made up of three head coaches from each of the AFCA's seven districts, one of whom serves as the district chairman, along with another head coach who serves as the chairman of the selection committee. The coaches in each district are responsible to ranking the top players in their respective districts prior to a conference call between the district chairmen and the committee chairman on which the teams are chosen.

Retzlaff is one of six players from the RMAC named to one of the two 2024 AFCA Division II All-America teams as he is joined on the first team by Western Colorado redshirt junior defensive lineman Ricky Freymond and Colorado School of Mines redshirt junior punter Blake Doud. On the second team, the RMAC players honored were Colorado School of Mines redshirt senior receiver Max McLeod, South Dakota School of Mines redshirt junior tight end Henry Dryden and Colorado Mesa redshirt junior linebacker Colin Stuhr.

Since 2013, the Pack have had nine players named as AFCA Division II All-Americans with eight of those nine players earning first team recognition and the other one earning second team accolades. In addition, Retzlaff is the first Pack offensive player to earn All-America honors from the AFCA.

Here is a complete list of the Pack's all-time AFCA Division II All-Americans.

2013 – Darius Allen, defensive line (First Team)
2014 – Darius Allen, defensive line (First Team)
2015 – Morgan Fox, defensive line (First Team)
2017 – Brandon Payer, linebacker (First Team)
2017 – Darius Williams, defensive back (Second Team)
2018 – Michael Wristen, defensive line (First Team)
2019 – Jackson Wibbels, defensive line (First Team)
2022 – Trey Botts, defensive line (First Team)
2024 – Reggie Retzlaff, receiver (First Team)